Coast2Coast Day 24: Cody to Manderson, WY; seeing a lot of nothing, and …

As of this ‘writing,’ am sitting in the library in Basin, WY, approximately eight miles short of Manderson.  The library is air-conditioned while the outside temps are now in the nineties (F).  Melissa is coloring postcards that we picked up at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.  Cathy is catching up on some work while on the library’s Wi-Fi.

After breakfast at Peter’s Cafe (almost across the street from The Irma, Bill Cody’s original hotel named after his youngest), Melissa and I started biking out of Cody.  After a mile out of town until passing into Big Horn County, there was little to see other than a distant herd of pronghorns and the approaching/increasingly looming Bighorn Mountains.

We turned South and through Burlington, where we stopped briefly.  We met Bob and Chris from Ames, Iowa.  They will also be doing RAGBRAI, so we hope to meet them again (StokesonSpokes on Instagram).  In Burlington, we visited the local convenience/hardware/bar, owned by a young lady originally from New Hampshire!  (Bob and Chris caught us again in Basin, where they stopped at the Copper Corner Cafe for pie with ice cream, supposedly prepping for RAGBRAI!)

After we ‘finish’ at the library, we will have eight miles to ride into Manderson.